WHITE PIGEON, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a pregnant woman and a child are dead and seven other people were taken to a hospital following an early-morning house fire in southwestern Michigan.
White Pigeon Fire Chief Troy Andrews says crews responding to a report of a fire shortly after 3 ...

BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS,
Traverse City Record Eagle
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TRAVERSE CITY— Rehabilitating motherless fawns could be a thing of the past for one Bingham Township couple.
David and Donna Prevo say a new Michigan Department of Natural Resources policy that says fawns have to be ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — AAA Michigan says average gas prices statewide are down 12 cents in the past week to about $2.28 per gallon amid continued declines in oil prices.
The Dearborn-based auto club says early today the average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline is at its lowest ...

PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) — A woman is awaiting sentencing after entering a plea in a crash that killed a 9-year-old who was walking his bike with his mother along a road in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.
Thirty-seven-year-old Holley Hibbler of Petoskey pleaded no contest Wednesday in an ...

LANSING (AP) — Legislation moving in Michigan’s Senate would authorize the Mackinac Bridge Authority to help implement a deal to replace twin oil pipelines in a crucial Great Lakes channel.
The Republican-led Senate Government Operations Committee passed the bill 3-2 on party lines ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — School districts and other public employers would have to stop providing taxpayer-funded leave time for employees to conduct union business under legislation that was narrowly approved Tuesday by the Republican-led Michigan Senate.
The bill, which passed 20-18 primarily ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — An art teacher who authorities say threw a chair in his southwestern Michigan classroom, hitting and injuring an 11-year-old student, has been sentenced to nine months of probation and 50 hours community service.
The Herald-Palladium reports 49-year-old Thomas Barnes ...

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has reduced the prison sentence for former college football player and American citizen Wendell Brown from four years to three for his involvement in a bar fight, a rights monitoring group said Wednesday.
Brown, a native of Detroit who played for Ball State ...

ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say 13 dogs have died and more than two dozen others were rescued following a fire at a garage in rural western Michigan that was being used as a kennel.
The fire was reported early Monday at Whispering Oaks Farm Kennel in Ottawa County’s ...

By JEREMY ERVIN
Port Huron Times Herald
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MARYSVILLE, Mich. — Don Evans, 91, first became interested in diving when he read about a drowning in the Black River. The Navy veteran would become an important early member of St. Clair County’s volunteer dive team. Over the ...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — AAA Michigan says average gas prices statewide are down 8 cents in the past week to about $2.40 per gallon amid continued declines in oil prices.
The Dearborn-based auto club said today the average price for self-serve regular unleaded gasoline is at its lowest level ...

By ERIC LACY
Lansing State Journal
AP Member Exchange
LANSING— A Lansing Police Department K-9 has received a gift that may save his life while out in the field.
A German shepherd named Chief received a 5-pound bullet and stab protective vest recently from Vested Interest in K-9s Inc., ...

DETROIT (AP) — A registered sex offender charged in the fatal shootings of two people and an attempted rape inside a low-income senior complex in Detroit has been arrested in Virginia.
Detroit police said Monday that James Fleming, 69, surrendered to authorities in Richmond around midnight. ...

TROY, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit man has been charged in the fatal bludgeoning of his 55-year-old aunt with a 15-pound (6.8 kilogram) dumbbell.
Nayir Masrur was arraigned Wednesday on first-degree murder.
Rubab Huq was found slain Monday in the basement of a home in Troy, north of ...

DETROIT (AP) — Businessman and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has reached a $1 billion agreement to sell the Greektown Casino-Hotel in downtown Detroit, one of the city’s three casinos, companies involved in the deal announced Wednesday.
The move marks the latest in billions of ...

By JOHN FLESHER
AP Environmental Writer
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The U.S. Senate approved a compromise policy Wednesday on dumping ship ballast water in coastal ports and the Great Lakes, a practice blamed for spreading invasive species that damage the environment and the economy.
The plan, ...

PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — A lawyer may pursue an insanity defense for a man charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Port Huron police officer.
The Times Herald of Port Huron reports Tuesday that court documents show attorney Bill Colovos has filed a motion to have Joshua Bauman undergo ...

HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — Court records show that a Michigan man who will soon finish a county jail sentence for impersonating an ambulance medic had a history of lying.
Tony Fortuna, 42, is nearing the end of his nine months in Kent County Jail, The Detroit News reported . He was sentenced in ...

By JEFF KAROUB
Associated Press
Michelle Obama’s 12-stop jaunt across the country — and an ocean — is not your average book tour. Of course, the former first lady is not your average author.
Oprah Winfrey joined Obama Tuesday night at the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and ...